Birth Injuries

When a baby is injured during or before birth because of the negligence of a healthcare professional, his or her parents can seek financial recovery for these injuries. Sacramento birth injuries attorneys represent parents who have been devastated to learn that their children suffered serious injuries that could have easily been avoided.

Common Types of Birth Injuries

The Sacramento birth injuries lawyers from Amaya & Associates Law Group handle a wide variety of cases resulting from the negligence or intentional acts of healthcare professionals. This includes cases regarding brain damage, birth hypoxia, complications that rise from breeched babies, medication errors, vacuum extraction injuries and effects of failing to perform a timely caesarean. Our lawyers also handle cases involving long-term disabilities caused by birthing errors, such as cerebral palsy and erbs palsy.

Finding Liability

A healthcare professional who acts in a careless or negligent manner can be found liable for the resulting injuries. The party who is financially liable for the injury is the one that was responsible for causing the birth injury. He or she may be required to pay monetary compensation to the parents.

Level of Damages

A Sacramento birth injuries attorney can explain that birth injury cases sometimes yield higher awards because of the lifelong costs associated with treating birthing injuries. Additionally, parents’ lives are often turned upside down as the picture that they had of a healthy baby may change into one that involves lifelong care for the child. Compensation in birth injury cases can be sought for damages such as:

past medical expenses

future medical expenses

disability or disfigurement damages

compensation for reduced quality of life

loss of future earning capacity

pain and suffering

Legal Assistance

Our legal team realizes the challenges that parents of a child who suffered birth injuries face. Medical expenses are significant and add to the pressure parents face. This stress is coupled with the demands and unreasonableness of insurance companies that want to settle such cases for as low as possible. Our staff of legal professionals can work diligently to see that your child receives the medical treatments that he or she deserves and so desperately relies on. Additionally, we can handle communications with the insurance company to ensure that it fulfills its obligation to pay those expenses related to your child’s injury.

Contact a Sacramento birth injuries lawyer from Amaya & Associates Law Group for help with your birth injury case. Call us at (916) 452-6116 to schedule a free and confidential consultation.